FREE TEAM & TECHNICAL AGILITY CONFERENCE 02-10-09 October 2, 2009

Skills Matter is delighted to welcome Alan Shalloway, CEO of NetObjectives to Skills Matter for this mini-conference taking place in London on 2nd October!

Alan will show you how to deliver current best practices for effective and sustainable software development without suffering.

This event is completely free to attend so get your skates on and register now!

The mini-conference will consist of two themes as follows:
Morning: Team Agility Conference
Team agility occurs when the whole team (customers, developers, testers, integrators) can deliver software on a frequent and efficient basis. It requires frequent feedback to ensure discovery of customer needs and an efficient process to be able to complete their implementation quickly. To do this requires:

* Self-organization and collective ownership
* Proper work load levels (managing work load levels)
* Ensuring a regular cadence of completion
* Integrating a customer feedback loop into the development process
* High quality code to keep the process sustainable

The morning session will cover the first four items above (the fifth is covered in the afternoon).

Afternoon: Mini-conference on Technical Agility
The mantra of all software development should be “minimize complexity and rework.” The trick is how to do it. In the Waterfall world, we ended up with both by overbuilding and adding features we don’t need. Rework is a natural result because our design ends up being insufficient, even while being overly large. The same thing can happen in the Agile world, however, by not creating a quality design or having one that degrades quickly because of not enough design.To avoid these traps, we need to:

* Use Emergent Design to create our designs
* Only add complexity into the system when needed
* Keep our code debt low and our code quality high
* Use inheritance properly
* Learn how to identify the main concepts in a problem domain while avoiding BDUF

Official Website: http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-scrum/team-technical-agility-conference/sw-253